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Pasko Kisić-Merino has a new article published at the Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) on how social media and neoliberal culture turn political conflict into spectacle. Drawing on a Lacanian framework, Pasko Kisić-Merino shows how people seek ontological security online through two intertwined features: programmable feeds that reward engagement and homophilic networks that nurture a ‘lov

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/feeling-secure-antagonism-algorithmic-mainstreaming-far-right-fantasies - 2026-05-03

Jana Wrange explores the relationship between the concept of strategic autonomy and the idea of a European total defence. By tracing the trajectory of EU security discourses from 2010 to 2024, the article shows a growing emphasis on total defence at the EU level, combining civilian and military capabilities, well before the recent resurgence of the concept of strategic autonomy. The findings sugge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-jana-wrange-strategic-autonomy-and-european-total-defence - 2026-05-03

Annika Björkdahl contributes insight on just and democratic peace to the article "Rethinking Peace in Turbulent Times" in Peacebuilding with Christine Cheng, Thania Paffenholz, SungYong Lee, Gearoid Millar and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara. Once a lively global conversation about how to build and sustain peace, today’s discourse has been hijacked by the language of security, deterrence, and defence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/peacebuilding-power-politics-how-security-talk-crowding-out-imaginations-peace - 2026-05-03

Feel overwhelmed but realise the need to understand what's going on? Academic analytical frameworks can help. European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened US government is talking about simply taking Greenland for its

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ian-manners-publishes-new-article-four-ways-understand-whats-going-us-denmark-and-greenland - 2026-05-03

STVC62 – International Relations Theory in Time and Space (7.5 credits). Bachelor course in Political Science. Autumn and Spring term. International Relations Theory is a time-honoured approach to the social world. Texts that are clearly recognizable as dealing with international relations date back to the ancient Greeks. Still, most textbooks in the field take a geographically and historically ve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/exchange-students-coming-sweden/bachelor-courses/international-relations-theory-time-and-space - 2026-05-03

Sara Kalm has co-authored an article with Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University), which has been published in Journal of European Social Policy. The article contributes to the literature which seeks to explain the birth and design of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. It does so from a novel perspective, as it analyzes how welfare state institutions influenced the positions states

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-and-co-authors-un-refugee-convention-welfare-state-perspective - 2026-05-03

In times of new geopolitical challenges, the concept of total defense has been revived, in which all citizens contribute to national defense efforts. How authorities communicate this new strategy, and when such crisis communication leads to increased defense willingness, is an important issue that Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt, together with Amanda Remsö and Emma Renström from Kristianstad Unive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-and-sjostedt-effects-authorities-crisis-communication-individual-defense-willingness - 2026-05-03

Annika Björkdahl, Jenny Lorentzen, and Inger Skjensbæck have contributed to and edited the new book Backlash Against the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Contesting Gender Norms. In recent years, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has faced mounting resistance from regressive political forces seeking to undermine its hard-won normative gains. This Open Access book offers a timely and rigo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-lorentzen-and-skjensbaeck-have-contributed-and-edited-new-book-backlash-against-women - 2026-05-03

7 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Presentation by Alice Panepinto, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast. The phenomenon of settler violence against people and property in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, and in particular the West Bank, has been a feature of Israel's grip over that land for decades. Despite some Western states' attempts to impose sanctions on individual settler

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-jewish-settler-violence-palestine-israeli-state-responsibility-attribution - 2026-05-03

21 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Presentation by Pelle Valentin Olsen, CMES and Department of History, Lund University By examining modern Iraqi history through the lens of leisure, this talk offers an entirely new perspective as it explores the institutions, practices, distractions, and discourses of leisure that occupied increasing space and time in the life of many Iraqis in the twentieth c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-idle-days-and-nights-leisure-entertainment-and-everyday-life-modern-iraq - 2026-05-03

4 June 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Presentation by Pinar Dinc, Lina Eklund, Maria Andrea Nardi, Mo Hamza, Hakim Abdi, CMES and Lund University. Over a decade has passed since the onset of the Syrian conflict, which continues to have dire humanitarian consequences in the region. Syria, with a population of approximately 17 million, ranks among low-income countries, with a gross national income pe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/cmes-seminar-eco-syria-exploring-conflict-environment-interactions-sustainable-development-and - 2026-05-03

26 May 2026 09:00 to 27 May 2026 17:00 | Workshop The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University invites you to explore the intersection of authoritarianism, climate policy, and displacement: In 2024, climate disasters caused 45.8 million displacements, more than double those from armed conflict. This workshop shifts the focus from traditional conflict-driven migration to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/authoritarian-climates-immobility-and-green-transition-middle-east - 2026-05-03

Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, and Johanna Mannergren have co-authored the book "Troubling Testimonies. Women's narratives of war, genocide and sexual violence" (New York University Press, 2026). This book explores women’s testimonies of war across four powerful cases: Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Yazidi women in Syria and Northern Iraq. We develop a theoretical framework li

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-kristine-hoglund-and-johanna-mannergren-give-voice-womens-testimonies-war - 2026-05-03

Jana Canavan has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Interspecies Freedom: Toward a Rethinking of Human-Animal Relations'. Congratulations to Dr. Canavan! External reviewer: Senior lecturer Per-Anders Svärd, Södertörns högskolaSupervisors/AdvisorsKalm, Sara, SupervisorBadersten, Björn, Assistant supervisorCudworth, Erika , Assistant supervisor, External personMore information about the thes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jana-canavan-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-03

28 May 2026 13:15 to 14:45 | Seminar “The Goalification of Global Governance: How Targets Are Shaping International Environmental Politics”AbstractOver the last twenty years, it has become more common in global environmental politics to rely on goal setting as a political steering mechanism. In climate governance, the goal-based Paris Agreement has replaced the stricter approach of the earlier Kyo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/honorary-doctor-seminar-frank-biermann-utrecht-university-goalification-global-governance-how - 2026-05-03

Matteo de Donà and Kristina Jönsson have published the article ”Responsible Accountability? Multi‐Stakeholder Partnerships, Sustainable Development and Global Health” in the journal Global Policy. In a comparative study of two global health multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs), we investigate the interplay between accountability and responsibility. We show that the ways in which global health MSP

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/de-dona-and-jonsson-about-multi-stakeholder-partnerships-and-responsible-accountability - 2026-05-03

Lisa Strömbom has recently published Agonistic Memory and Peace. Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine (Edinburgh University Press). The book investigates the role of memory politics in societies marked by deep conflict and shows how certain forms of local dialogue initiatives can counteract simplified understandings of a conflict’s history. Drawing on interview-based case studies from t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lisa-strombom-explores-memory-dialogues-during-and-after-war-new-book-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-05-03

28 May 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar CMES welcomes Dalia Dassa Kaye for a talk on her book Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy. A timely and rigorous analysis of a half-century of American policymakers' shifting perceptions of Iran, and how they have driven US-Iran relations.US–Iran hostility has endured for longer than the Cold War. Momentous geopolitical shifts, changing lead

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/book-talk-enduring-hostility-making-americas-iran-policy - 2026-05-03

27 May 2026 15:15 to 16:45 | Lecture/talk Welcome to this year’s honorary doctor seminars hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences. 15:15-16:00Frank Biermann: “Planetary crisis and plurilateral politics: Global governance in the age of Trump”Frank Biermann is Professor of Global Sustainability Governance at Utrecht University. Drawing on political science and law, his influential scholarship criti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/meet-2026-honorary-doctors-faculty-social-sciences - 2026-05-03

3 June 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Chair: Annika Björkdahl Agonistic Memory and Peace: Colombia, Northern Ireland and Israel-PalestineInvestigates memory initiatives in three of the world’s hardest to solve conflicts and how they can be invested with more constructive dynamicsAgonistic memory work as a framework for conflict transformationIn-depth case studies from Colombia, Israel-Palestine, an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/calendar/higher-research-seminar-lisa-strombom-lund-university-agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-05-03